Senior Assurance Advisor

ENGINEERINGUK; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prominent international engineering and construction company as a Senior Assurance Advisor, where your expertise in safety management and compliance will be pivotal in delivering high-quality projects. In this role, you will lead assurance audits, support safety management systems, and collaborate with various teams to ensure adherence to safety regulations and project objectives. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact while working in a diverse and inclusive environment that values teamwork and innovation. If you are passionate about safety in construction and eager to drive change, this is the perfect role for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of practical experience in Safety Management in Construction.
• Auditor trained with experience in Safety Management Systems.

Responsibilities

• Support Assurance Team in project delivery and compliance.
• Conduct safety audits and inspections, ensuring compliance.

Skills

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Negotiation Skills

IT Skills

Teamwork

Training Delivery

Education

NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Tools

Safety Management Systems

ISO 45001

Job description

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Sector: Construction and Building Services, Engineering

Role: Senior Executive

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Job title: SENIOR ASSURANCE ADVISOR

Reporting line management: ASSURANCE MANAGER

EXPERIENCE

The purpose of this role will be to:

1. Actively support the Assurance Team with ensuring delivery and compliance across all our project objectives, targets and KPI's.
2. Plan and complete Assurance Audits in line with the Assurance Plan.
3. Support/lead significant Event Investigations with the principal contractor.
4. Drive, deliver and encourage innovation to achieve the project's objectives, targets and KPI's.
5. Liaise with the BYLOR operational site teams to raise awareness, share and embed the learnings from previous Event Investigations, parent companies and trend analysis.

Specific Duties

You will be expected to:

• Lead/support ongoing development of the SMS.
• Support implementation of the requirements of the Safety Management System (SMS).
• Ensure clear understanding and compliance with all obligations imposed under the contract.
• Provide assurance support and advice to all BYLOR team members and subcontractors.
• Effectively report and communicate to all senior team members with relevant and clear information.
• Carry out safety audits and inspections of dedicated work areas, record all observations and actions and distribute actions accordingly. Collate evidence of close outs for record.
• Attend the relevant meetings e.g., Progress, HSE SHELT meetings.
• Ensure that a strong relationship is established and maintained with the NNB Construction and Safety teams.
• Support internal and external audits by parent companies, client, principal contractor and external bodies.
• Overseeing the collation of client driven monthly HSE KPIs.
• Ensure that a strong relationship is established and maintained with the Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and client regulatory interface teams.
• Ensuring that case management and claim processes are completed in a timely manner.
• Attend monthly claims meeting with parent and external companies.

Knowledge / Experience / Qualifications Required:

• ISO 45001 requirements (auditor experience preferred).
• Auditor trained and experience with Safety Management Systems.
• Practical Experience in Safety Management in Construction (>5 years).
• NEBOSH Cert in Occupational Health and Safety (Desirable).

Skills

You will need:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to gain the confidence and cooperation with all members of the various teams.
• An analytical approach and a high level of attention to detail.
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Negotiating skills and the capacity to persuade others, in order to achieve results and initiate action.
• An understanding of practical conditions in industry and the ability to apply workable solutions.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Advanced IT skills.
• Confident in delivering training and facilitating learning.
• The ability to identify and consider the many different cultures that are embedded within the BYLOR teams when developing assurance solutions.

Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourke believes that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.